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Error when trying to Refresh All from an Excel workbook using Analyze in Excel

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blezin on 21 Oct 2017 01:35:58

Users are getting 'initialization of data source failed' when refreshing a Power BI data source from Excel 2016.
The workaround is to open Excel using 'Run As Admin' but the issue resurfaces intermittently for random users.